Updates: Spring Tours may be booked - but everyone's invited to the Rural Heritage Celebration...
 

2009 Rural Heritage
Celebration
Saturday, April 25th
10-4PM

See the Festival Flyer

See the Agenda of Events

How to get there

Admission, parking and refreshments are free. Please wear comfortable shoes as some walking is required. Due to a wide range of aimals on display, pets are not allowed at this event.
Some exhibitors will have items for sale.
 

Rural Heritage Celebration
We've increased the hours for the 2009 celebration. Look forward to more from those local favorites mixed in with glipses from our past.

Here are some highlighs from last year. We rounded up local farmers, music and crafters who presented their Pee Dee products to celebrate our rural heritage. 750 people enjoyed our local attendees:

  • Carolina Rice and Grits
  • Young's Pecan Plantation
  • Oaklyn Plantation Chicken and Beef
  • Blizzard Branch Milling & Syrup
  • Happy Cow Creamery
  • Boykin Mill Farm
  • JBJ's Bar-B-Que
  • Gullah Storyteller
  • McCall Farms - Boiled Peanuts
  • Dr. Fishbone's Cookbook
  • Florence, Cotton, Tobacco and Bean Museums
  • Old Plantation Syrup and Sauce
  • Blacksmith
  • Homestead Bent Willow Furniture
  • Uncle Pete's Bar-B-Que
  • Bee Keeper
  • Ovis Hill Farms
  • Harvest Moon Soapworks
  • Hyman Vineyards
  • Traditional Colonial Rifles
  • Sweetgrass Baskets
  • Mules, Wagons and Plows
  • Windy Hill Orchard
  • Moonshine: History and Demonstration
  • Corn Husk Chairs and Seats
  • Ancient Cypress Display
  • Bass Pro Shop Fishing
  • Department of Agriculture - Specialty Foods Assn.
  • Clemson Extension and Muscadine Grape Initiative
  • Carolina-Pacific

...and traditional music by the South Carolina Broadcasters

See our brochure (pdf, 733Kb)

Keynote Speaker, Hugh Weathers, Agriculture Commissioner

Rep. Neilson, Sen. Malloy and Rep. Williams present a check for biofuel research to Drs. Laurie Lawson (left) and Jim Frederick (second from right)

Rep. Williams talked about local producers at the 'Town Hall' meeting

750 people enjoyed the festivities

Honda Donates New Wheels

Honda Manufacturing of South Carolina partners with the Trail with a donation of a new ATV. Read more...
 
 
Pee Dee Professor Awarded for Trail Service Jim Frederick was presented a special achievement award from the S.C. Soil and Water Conservation Society during the organization’s recent partners conference at Myrtle Beach. More...

 
CHOiCES Charter School Completes Wikiup November 2007 - Students from the CHOiCES Charter School have completed the Native American shelter at the Outdoor Education Trail. Measuring about ten feet tall, fifteen feet wide and twenty feet deep, this replica of a woodland shelter utilizes the flex-pole technique. Read more about their hard work...

CHOiCES students take a break for a photo in front of the wikiup.

 

Trail Introduction
In the summer of 2005, construction began on the Outdoor Education Trail (OET) at the Pee Dee Research and Education Center, stradling the Florence and Darlington County boundary. The OET consists of a 1.5 mile trail that displays interactive educational materials and focuses on the importance of natural resources found in the ecosystems of our region. The OET also offers information on how these resources are used and the role society has in resource conservation.

The first tours of the OET took place in November, 2005, and the inaugural Open House occurred on April 14th!

 

Trail Supporters

Pee Dee Endowment Program
ArborOne
SC Farm Bureau Federation
Honda
Wildlife Action
Clemson University Landscapes for Learning Program
Clemson University Alliance 2020 Program
Darlington Soil and Water Conservation District
Leslie and Bob Harris
Pee Dee Land Trust
Monsanto
SC Cotton Board
SC Soybean Board
SC Forestry Commission
US Forest Service
Dekalb
Pee Dee Sierra Club
Francis Marion University - Biology and English Departments


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This webpage was last updated on December 12, 2007